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Khao Sok River Kayaking Trip in Southern Thailand

 

Khao Sok River kayaking tripKlong Sok (Sok River)

The Sok River meanders through verdant valleys as it courses its way across the region. Many birds inhabit the river area. Black-capped Kingfishers, White-throated Kingfishers, Common Kingfishers, Chinese Pond Herons, Little Herons, Indian Rollers, Oriental Magpie-Robins, Little Spiderhunters, Grey Wagtails, Yellow Wagtails, Stripe-throated Bulbuls, Yellow-vented Bulbuls and lots of Vernal Hanging Parrots are often encountered on this easy river kayaking trip. There are certainly more birds than this in the area.

Water Monitor Lizards frequent the shoreline. Long-tailed Macaques (monkey) are on the cliffs as are White-handed Gibbons.

Depending on the water level of this free-flowing river, the start is either near the headquarters area of Khao Sok National Park or a bit further down where to river is a bit wider.

The first section meanders through thick jungle and rural farmland. There are towering limestone karst cliffs on both sides of the river. Several kilometers downstream, the terrain opens up more and the river widens.

The river flows all the way to Surat Thani and the Gulf of Thailand. We average 30 to 40 kilometers per day usually. This depends on the desires of our guests, but this is a realistic distance for paddlers of average fitness levels.

We stay in comfortable, air conditioned guesthouses in small rural towns along the way.

Khlong Sok - Sok River
kayaking past towering limestone cliffs

 

khao sok river kayaking tourThe river is runnable from May through October and sometimes into November, depending on the rain.

 

If you are looking for a river kayaking trip that is extremely scenic and very easy, this is your opportunity. This can be a stand-alone trip or an add-on to our Khao Sok National Park trip.

PaddleAsia offers two-day, three-day and four-day river kayaking trips. Longer trips are available on request. Each trip is tailored to our guests' desires. From extremely easy mainly floating trips, to distance paddling, this river kayaking trip is suitable for just about everyone. Relaxing river kayaking trip

If you're into fishing, especially fly fishing, that can be added to your trip.


Click here to see a YouTube video.

 

Note: we course our way past Khlong Phanom National Park, which is tucked between Khao Sok National Park Headquarters and Cheow Lan Reservoir. This park receives almost no foreign visitors. In fact, on our initial survey trip, they didn't really know what to do with us. Foreigners are supposed to pay a higher park entrance fee than locals, but they didn't know if they should charge us or not. We asked them to charge us as we don't mind supporting Thailand's national parks.

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River kayaking trip in Khao Sok

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